Chapters:

The movement was swift
and powerful, and as his left shoe was exploded from his foot on
impact the rest of his body was a shattered mass of exploded meat
and bone, thrown thirty feet from the point of impact by the
fully laden truck. Even as his body crumpled in slow motion
towards its final resting place his physical mind felt a
nanosecond of excruciating pain followed by a dull peace and
darkness. The next unit measure of time was immeasurable; it
could have been an instant or millennia as far as Joe Griggs was
concerned. The realization that he was dead took an instant as he
could still feel his limbs and his physical being although he was
on another plane of consciousness.

The atmosphere was
nonexistent but in his mind it was think like treacle and soot
mixed together and blown around, he started to cough and could
see no reason why he would need to as his body was a shimmering
ply on light and dark, there were no angles no demons, yet, and
he was stuck in place in a void that lacked any real description
to his disembodied mind.

"Hello" I thought I
said aloud, but it must be a hangover from my corporeal days as a
human, the physic feedback that left me bellowed for a second
time. "Hello! Is there anyone there" I motioned again. Nothing
still nothing, shit I must be dead! Is this death, am I
transitioning to be reborn or some shit or is this where I stay
until what's left of me dissipates in this mire of dark smoke. I
could not move, nor turn, I just was! Another period of what must
be time where I am passed and I have no idea how long it was as I
don't really have any perception of this non reality. That's when
it happened, what was left of me moved at light speed and in an
instant I was transported to another place where there were more
like me, I could not see faces as such but I could interpret the
outlines as shadows of their former selves as I was, I could
sense them. Silhouettes shifted and moved around me as if all in
the space were looking at the others, Shapes in front were there,
them gone in a blink and we surged forward as one in unison to
God knows where.

"God, GOD! Has nothing
to do with this place Azurad! Or have you forgotten your father"
an evil force of presence weighed upon me at the instant the
communication came my way. Other shapes moved some placed
unthinking hands over unreal ears, others collapsed in the void
and some I could feel were laughing with the respondent. "You are
here for repurposing and rebirth back on the solid plane." The
voice bellowed at me. "And any others amongst you that cannot
remember your purpose here should regress into your being and
find who you really are before you move past the next holding
swirl." It finished.

"Who are you" I
motioned toward a large phantom as it glided towards me. It had
some sort of physical presence unlike the rest of us and was
distinctly non human in many ways but in others
was.

"You do not recall your
favoured friend and leader in subterfuge and sins of the flesh".
It paused for a time. I am the builder of the tower, the
instructor of men, the death of many or the one who seeks
revenge, against that so called God for drowning a world that was
learning to live upon his created plain". Again there was a pause
I looked in the general direction of the communication and
towering shadow and as it moved towards me solid and huge with
muscle and tusk its newly formed mouth opened and said "I am
Nimrod, right hand to the light bringer your
father".

Although I had no body
or head my essence swirled in the void and as I hit the front of
the moving throng, my presence moved swiftly as one yet again to
another darker place that was a holding cell or such. Again what
passes for time in this place transpired and I was left to
remember my previous lives, and in all I had lived through eighty
eight births and deaths each one as simple as the last, deaths
young, old and all ages in-between, from natural causes to being
ripped apart by sword and mace in battle. I was also a mother and
father many times over and the choice was not mine and never
would be. I was a slave to the darkness and I could feel that
each time I came back I liked it less each time but the nature of
my placing on the earthly plane was to cause as much disruption
to the fabric of god's society as possible, from simple seduction
of a good spirit to outright murder.

"What am I" I said now
out aloud to myself and the darkness peeled back to reveal a red,
purple hue to the surroundings.

"You are the servant of
my will Azurad and as your father you do it with a measure of
hatred and distrust I cannot create myself." The voice was simple
and light but as oppressive as a water laden towel on pressing
over your mouth and nose during torture. The pain I felt and cold
although I had no body was excruciating. "You are one of my
favoured few and your father my right hand, man? No that sounds
too much like the world I send you, let's just say he is the
hammer to my armour." It said.

"Now are you going to
stay a while and recover your thoughts, or do you want to go back
in line and await your rebirth." The words he formed eating
through my unfocused self like acid burning a hole in plastic.
"No master I would like for to be cast back into the shell I just
departed if possible, my life was moving at a rate and I was to
enact my plan soon". I lied.

"I did not see that at
all Azurad! I saw a normal life being led nothing to undermine
the god state of mind at all or simply create havoc amongst his
little toys he calls humans." Was his painful reply

"No I had plans for
action I assure you master, I was luring one so young into a life
away from the church and into obscure depravity and drug filled
mindlessness." Again I lied.

I saw glowing embers
where eyes should be and a hollow sound as all went dark as the
words "So be it" burned my soul.

Pain so much pain was
the only thing I could feel and the taste of burnt copper in my
mouth, bones and organs shattered beyond repair screamed and bled
internal. A woman's voice was screaming orders, and she was
saying "ring 911 he's alive" I felt my bones tingle and my organs
knit as the flesh and blood I owned regenerated and formed a
living organism once more. I moaned and opened one eye and all I
could hear before I passed out was the soft female whisper in my
ear "What are you?"